Word: monorail
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...Burning, and Robert Ardrey's Shadow of Heroes. The theater is housed in the white brick and thermopane 800-seat Seattle Center Playhouse built for last year's World's Fair. And people can still whisk out there from downtown, if they like, by monorail...
...untouched 11,300 acres, nearly half the size of Paris, within the city limits of Los Angeles, Pereira's design would relegate the automobile to a circular rim-road linking ten villages that cling like jewels to the slopes. To keep even this traffic to a minimum, he suggests monorail and funicular transportation and several heliports for quick, easy access to other parts of the city. Within the villages themselves, everything would be so cozily clustered that the common way of going shopping, or to school, or to sports, or to work (in the light industries and laboratories he hopes...
...worth of traditional hold-onto-your-hat rides. "Basically there are only two rides: up and down, or around-but you've got to have them to make a living in this business," says Freedomland Vice President Art Moss. Freedomland's latest include a monorail roller coaster imported from Germany, a Space Whirl featuring bumper cars which can also whirl like dervishes at 100 r.p.m. But the park's most puzzling addition to its fun is no ride; it's a waxworks replica of the Last Supper...
Boston's transit systems, though already extensive, might still benefit from the Williams Bill. The MTA, currently operating with a heavy deficit, could quality for federal loans or grants to rebuild the Charlestown El and extend it to Medford and Malden. Builders of the proposed South Shore monorail might also borrow or be given federal money...
Electronic Cheer. Rich's department store in Atlanta sent children monorail riding on ''the Pink Pig Flyer,'' also boasted the city's largest (65 ft.) Christmas tree, a northern white pine imported from South Carolina. The Atlanta Constitution reported that "edible ornaments are being revived''; there was hardly a tree trimmer around without a couple of gross of chocolate snowmen tucked away in reserve in hopes of having one or two unchewed examples left by Christmas...